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Cloture Motion
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
The bill clerk read as follows:
Cloture Motion
We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Executive Calendar No. 123, Orelia Eleta Merchant, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Brian Schatz, John
W. Hickenlooper, Margaret Wood Hassan, Gary C. Peters,
Mark Kelly, Jack Reed, Tammy Duckworth, Christopher
Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Catherine Cortez Masto,
Mazie K. Hirono, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen,
Tammy Baldwin, Angus S. King, Jr., Alex Padilla, Robert
Menendez, Michael F. Bennet.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 70
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